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TENRYU MARU Class Auxiliary Transport

(TENRYU MARU prewar)

This class consists of TENRYU, SHINRYU, FUSHIMI, SANKO, KAMIKAZE
MARUs and SHINSEI MARU No. 6 completed between Dec ’36 and Oct ‘38 for
various shipping companies. All were requisitioned; FUSHIMI and SANKO
MARUs by THE IJA as Army transports No. 287 and No. 394, the others by the
IJN: TENRYU and SHINRYU MARU were converted to auxiliary transports,
KAMIKAZE MARU to an auxiliary destroyer tender and SHINSEI MARU No. 6 to
an auxiliary collier/oiler. All were sunk from various causes between Aug
’42 and May ’44.